Food has been the most important part of losing weight!
It has been a while since I last posted anything. I have really been focusing and trying to find a niche that will work for me. I was losing weight but too slowly. At first I just cut back my portions which helped me lose 8 pounds. Then I joined a gym while continuing to monitor my portions, and I lost 4 more pounds. However, I was working out at least 6 days a week and hard sometimes for an 1 - 1/2 or more so to lose on average a pound a week is s-l-o-w progress to me especially when I have cut out chocolate completely and pretty much all my other indulgences!
So about 3 weeks ago I decided to really count my calories and reduce even more it wasn’t good enough to just eat smaller plates. I only allow myself around 1200 calories a day. It may seem stringent at first, but if you learn how to play the numbers game it gets easier. For instance, I trick my body with alot of veggies. Especially frozen organic ones - I find you can eat large platefuls and they are low in calories. I went back to eating egg whites and oatmeals in the mornings and for lunch right now I am being stringent so that I can have a little more room to eat at nighttime. I eat a cottage cheese (lowfat) for lunch. Dinner consists of chicken, lots of salad and steamed veggies. I also boil sweet potatos to substitute for regular mashed potatos. It is great! Sometimes I put in a large tablespoon of other goodies to like macaroni salad, spinach kiesh (lowfat) and spanish yellow rice - but just a bit! Well this strategy is working I have consistently been losing 2-3 pounds per week! I am very excited this is usually the bad part of the month for me when I tend to gravitate toward eating so I am sycked right now. Soon I will be going for another schlerotherapy session to work on the appearance of my legs one more time and then I will go shopping for some new clothes and then tan ever so lightly to define my muscle tone! All coming up in the next 2 months!!!! Remember what they say losing weight is: 80% diet 10% exercise and 10% genetics. I would probably beg to differ that exercise plays a bit of a higher role in it, but at the end of the day I have to agree that eating is the most important aspect to consider when trying to lose weight.
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Definitely. YOu can eat way more calories than you can burn off in a week of you are not careful!
TOTALLY all about the diet!! When my girlfriend told me that i was devastated LOL. Exercise i agree accounts for a little more than 10% because not only does it burns calories in itself, it makes your metabolism burn more calories throughout the day in general because of the muscle that you build when you exercise (cardio+training combined). So when i think of the ontribution of my daily exercise, i try not to think of it as only an extra 500 calories burned, but i try to imagine the extra calories that im burning during the day SIMPLY because i am exercise… does that make sense? lol
But yeah, if you eat like a poutine - you need to run for a LONG time to burn that baby off - so in a way you’re not even really losing, you’re MAYBE maintaining - so yeah its sOOOOOOO mostly about the diet!!
Oh AND i was gonna blog exactly about this… but i wanted to cehck up on you first!
But a really good family friend has lost over 50lbs in the last 2 years. For alsmot a year she ate WAHTEVER she wanted and attended Curves on a daily. And she lost about 25 pounds in a year. She’s been doing Weight Watchers AND Curves since January (so 3 months) and has lost 29 pounds in the last three months. This is HUGE! Considering also that the first pounds are the easiest to lsoe apparently! And she looks great! And happy and glowy 
lol I was thinking of joining WW for a couple months…but only if i have a hard time getting back on the program, but i think i should be allright. Anwayys, keep it up Michelle!!! thanks for checkin’ up, i think i woulda jsut logged back out if i didnt see your Booster note! 
Hmmm actually - she did curves for a little over a year - and has been doing ww for 3 months - so yeahr 50lbs in ther last year and a half.. i think
You are doing great!!!!!! I need to work on altering my diet. That is a huge problem for me. I love to exercise! I need to take some of your dieting ideas and use them for myself. =0)
